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He's an eejit because he went to UAE, right?

Not because he's been stitched up on bogus charges....
was the previous foreign secretary involved with this case? he has history in the matter of outing "spies"...…..
Studying their security? Wow!
Sounds like he invited trouble.
But Special Forces, (volunteers of course,) could burst him out and bring him home.
Like the Israelis at Entebbe.
Would do wonders for Great Britains standing in the world.
Oh yes! Put the blocks on any body else going there.
They would suffer, not us.
he was an eejit because he was well you know there when he was arrested
( rather than elsewhere or someone else)
yeah foo-den ! what a fracking eejit
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Yes JTT they are bogus charges but what possesses anyone with an ounce of common to go to these places? "Researching the country's security strategy" seriously? Talk about a nice ripe blackberry to pick.
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when are we going to learn that these people are not civilised, these places are not safe. gawd they slung a bloke in jail the other week for brushing to close to another bloke!
"Not because he's been stitched up on bogus charges...."

I don't think it's quite so clear cut as that:

"Matthew Hedges, 31, of Durham University, has said he is innocent, and that he had been researching the country's security strategy."

Imagine if somebody from the Middle East had been detected in the UK (or the USA or anywhere for that matter) "researching the country's security strategy". I wonder how that might have gone down. What business was it of Mr Hedges what the security strategy of the UAE is? What possible legitimate reason can he have for embarking on such an exercise?
Difficult. Surely he would have informed the authorities what he was visiting for, in advance, and they must've approved his visit ?
"Surely he would have informed the authorities what he was visiting for, in advance, and they must've approved his visit ?"

Are we to believe they would have given him the OK to "research their security strategy"?
Anyone who goes to an Arab/Muslim country is looking for trouble. You wouldn't find me within a 1000 miles of one.
His ‘research’, coupled with the fact that he is now married to a Middle Eastern woman must have rankled those in high places in the UAE.

As Einstein said:
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

Given what happened to the Azari-Ratcliffe woman you’d have thought an alarm bell may have sounded to him.
He must be out of his mind.
He was given full permission by the UAE, and a risk assessment by the university indicated it was safe:

"Matt completed his research ethics application, acknowledging fully his academic obligations of, firstly, openness with his interviewees about the nature and purpose of his work; secondly, the importance of gaining their informed consent to participate; and, thirdly, the rights of interviewees to both full anonymity if desired and to withdraw their consent and any material provided to Matt at any point."



https://www.dur.ac.uk/sgia/about/news/?itemno=36156
Spy.
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JD/Chill bang on.
IKJLM: "He was given full permission by the UAE, and a risk assessment by the university indicated it was safe" - it seems that they need some better risk people.
Spice. Of course not, these places are known to the last grain of sand in the desert. There is no need to spy, nowt to spy about. This bloke was just another naive student without an ounce of common backed by a Uni full with not much more.
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as JD says you wouldn't catch me anywhere near one of these. Perhaps one day they may drag themselves out of the 7th century and be habitable.
Absolutely, or why would he take the risk NJ ?
It's not a great cover story for a spy is it - 'I'm an academic undertaking research into your security strategy'.

These places are godawful, and people should avoid them. Anyone who doesn't is naive. Go somewhere else on holiday. They don't need or deserve our money.


"Imagine if somebody from the Middle East had been detected in the UK (or the USA or anywhere for that matter) "researching the country's security strategy". I wonder how that might have gone down."

https://www.salon.com/2002/05/07/students/

We have recently experienced the conflicting lies that have emanated concerning Khashoggi and the AB sleuths (armchair) have determined this man's innocence/guilt on minimal details.
Welcome to Coronation Street.
// "researching the country's security strategy". I wonder how that might have gone down.//

complete non sequitur - no christians have let off, stabbed, exploded no bombs in the last hundred years in the UAE

other than that - er yeah - christians are obvious security risks in Araby and as Nigh might say - should be sent home immediately

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